Goldsmith is here for all the changes.
And he says his drummer brother, Griffin Goldsmith, is too.
If anything, its reinvigorated Griffin and I.
Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith make up the band Dawes.Jon Chu*
It reminded us, Oh, were lifers.
Were lifers as band leaders.
We dont want to do anything else we want to do this.
We cant choose what happens to us, he says.
But we can choose how we react to it.
Well, everything goes out of fashion/You went way over that hill, he croons.
You couldnt go on as a has-been/You had to be the king of the never-wills.
But even getting there required its own share of upheaval.
But then, of course, I have my dark moments: What am I doing here?
Is anybody even paying attention?
Should I just go home?
Recently, Goldsmith was watching a video of young adults being asked, How old is old?
They responded to the effect of, Anyone born before the year 2000 is really old.
Goldsmith mulls the clip before raising his own rhetorical questions.
My universe has gotten smaller and [thats] contributed to my music, Goldsmith says.
But I still do this thing.
I still go out and play a show.
